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Arabian sand cats are specially adapted to arid desert environments in the Middle East.

They have never been domesticated and lack the social adaptations of house cats.

Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted The feature could arrive as soon as this year.

Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted www.theverge.com/tech/878725/...

India’s Toxic Air Crisis Is Reaching a Breaking Point Months of deadly smog in New Delhi are sharpening public anger over a pollution crisis the government has failed to fix.

As New Delhi endures another winter of deadly smog, public anger is growing over a pollution crisis India's government has failed to resolve.

One of the greatest gifts that dogs give us is they remind us that life doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Black Rose Ceramics :
Raku fired

Flower Paintings & Mail Print Club
Vera Kober✨

Flamingos at Zoo Atlanta.
#Flamingos #ZooAtlanta #ClassicMono #Monochrome #Blackandwhite #B&W #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #WilliamAdamsPhotography

Even statues get stressed……….
#photography #artphotography

Close up view of leaves on a tree. The leaves are autumnal colours, with little or no space between them. Some branches are visible between the leaves. The tree is a liquid amber.

Can't wait for autumn

From April 2025

#Abstractia #Repetition #photography #leaves #autumn

A dead tree in the middle of a wooded area is in the centre of the frame. Someone has hollowed out the centre of the trunk, but left enough wood to carve out two owls inside of it.

For #BlueSkyArtShow theme #wood.
I absolutely love this carving of #owls inside a dead tree trunk at one of my favourite nature reserves. Artist unknown – but truly talented.

#Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #woodcarving #forest #sonyalpha

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." - Bertrand Russell
Via Kusala Bhikshu

Sand art, Ocean Beach, San Francisco 5:43p 2/13/26 @trachkids.bsky.social @waves-sf.bsky.social

A shuttered Northern California hospital is getting a lifeline from Congress, but it doesn’t come with money to actually reopen and serve patients. bit.ly/4tD3cUk

📸 Chris Kaufman

“what cool shit can I do as Mayor? oh, I can marry people? awesome, let’s do it”

once again the constant theme of “New York is great, New Yorkers are great, isn’t this great?” comes through

A new transportation system may soon connect the Universal Orlando theme parks - and it will likely be underground. On Wednesday, Feb. 11, the board of the Shingle Creek Transit and Utility Community Development District — a special purpose district that surrounds Universal's Florida properties — approved a resolution to begin contract negotiations with Elon Musk's The Boring Company. According to a statement from the district, the board received three proposals for "transportation infrastructure improvements" and found The Boring Company "best addressed the district's request for an innovative, future-ready, point-to-point solution."

Basically, Florida doesn't have subway tunnels because there would be way to much emphasis on "sub"...as in submarine. In about 80% of the peninsula, the water table is less than ten feet (3 meters) below ground level. The situation is slightly better in far northern Florida, but still pretty soggy. Building a subway system that requires half a billion dollars worth of pumping and bailing every year is a nonstarter. There is also the consideration regarding the fragility of Florida's underpinnings. Roughly half the state is karst terrain, a sort of eroding limestone formation. This topography leads to our many caves (most submerged) and sinkholes (many water filled). It's also the source of our drinking water, as huge quantities of mostly ancient freshwater move slowly from north to south through the two aquifers that occupy the soft and porous limestone that is Florida's basement. A major construction project like a subway, which could physically damage the aquifers would be met by nearly universal citizen opposition, it's even possible that Florida's "if it exists, pave it" politicians might realize it's a bad idea. We mostly prefer to be on top of the water here in Florida.

Pretty much all of the credulous reporting on Musk proposing to tunnel in Florida (fig. 1) doesn't acknowledge what everyone in Florida knows. (fig. 2)

Happy #ValentinesDay to my cherished friends, mutuals, and followers, the world over.

Rachel Ruysch, Dutch painter, 1664-1750.
Flowers in a Glass Vase, 1704.
Oil on canvas.

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📷 Detroit Institute of Arts©️

Thanks to Susan Collins, Rs now claim to have secured 51 votes in the Senate & will thus move into the phrase of pressuring Senators to nuke the filibuster. If this pressure campaign succeeds, their voter suppression bill, the Save America Act, becomes law. Thread. #NoOnSave

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#flowers #fujifilm #xt5

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Sea of Clouds (Unkai) at Tenguki Pass This breathtaking vertical landscape photograph captures the natural phenomenon known as unkai, or sea of clouds, at Tenguki Pass in Nara Prefecture. The image is a study in profound depth and atmospheric transition, featuring the silhouettes of receding mountain ridges in varying shades of deep indigo and midnight blue. A thick, ethereal carpet of white mist fills the valley floor, winding between the peaks like a silent, slow-moving river. The horizon is crowned by a vibrant band of fiery orange and soft amber light from the rising sun, which provides a striking, warm contrast to the cool, shadowed tones of the rugged terrain below.

"Sea of Clouds" (Unkai) at the Tenguki Pass (Tenguki-tōge) in Nosegawa Village, Nara Prefecture, Japan.

Photo of curved pine tree branches and the tree in the foreground and the ocean and a hill in the background, on a sunny windy day (lots of big white ocean waves partly obstructed by the tree)

for you
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#ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #WomensArtBlueSky #Photography #PhotographersOnBlueSky #OregonCoast #Ocean #Clouds #Oregon

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“The Journey 1“ I made this with Ohuhu markers and the hard part was knowing when the piece was done #alcoholink #fluidart #gold #alcoholinkpainting #abstract

Painting, portrait of a woman head and shoulders with dark hair tied up with a ribbon and a small monkey on her shoulder behind is a lush green garden background

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best"
- Frida Kahlo. Her self-portraits were full of symbolism & hidden meanings, noting the significant people & events of her life #womensart

What's he looking at?... Early morning. Algonquin Park security. Pepe The Pine Martin, keeping his eyes open for creepy individuals and people without valid day passes. A true predator. Very handsome. 😂📸🇨🇦
#AlgonquinPark #PineMarten
#Mammals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #OntarioParks #Canada

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Let's just say what we're all thinking: 1) @weratedogs.com is heartwarming, heroic, and spot-on about basic decency; 2) dogs (and Matt) don't care where you are from, how you got here, or what you look like, but they absolutely know whether or not you are kind, safe, loyal, and trustworthy.

This teenager saved his neighbor's dog from drowning in a freezing pond. This is Bernard. His family contacted emergency services right away, but high school senior Hugh Pinneo got to Bernard first. Hugh said he's "just glad I acted that day and saved the dog's life." We are too. 12/10 for all

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

A loosely painted watercolour of flowers in a glass jug

One of my watercolours, Flowers and apples with linear work using a dip pen.
#watercolour #stilllife

"Peace is not convenient.
Compassion is not easy.
But they are always worth it."

Buddhist monks, Walk for Peace

www.youtube.com Buddhist monks reach Washington, DC, during ‘Walk for Peace’

Buddhist monks reach Washington, DC, during ‘Walk for Peace’